Week #114: Messing with explosives.

In order for the "Table" commands to be recognized here on LTHF, the BBCode forum software may need to be upgraded to v3.3. This may or may not be attempted in the near future.

Here I go with a new format for this intelligence. The package arrives here on Wednesday afternoon.

Food4Less | Tony's | Jewel | Aldi | Jimenez | Butera | A. Caputo
Soda 12-pack 12-oz. cans
3.99 | 3.99d* | 3.99** | X | 4.99% | 4.99 | 4.50
Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce 18-oz.
99¢& | b1g1f | 99¢d | X | X | 99¢ | 1.00
El Ranchero tortilla chips 12-oz.
2.99~ | 2.50 | b1g1f | X | 2.99 | 2.99 | X
Powerade 28-oz.
X | 79¢d | 89¢d | X | X | 89¢ | X
deli potato salad per-lb.
1.66(3#) | 1.33(3#) | 2.33(3#) | X | X | 1.99 | 1.49
hamburger | hot dog buns 8-ct.
99¢^d | 2.50 | 1.49 | 1.29 | X | 2.49 | 2.50
'Vienna Beef' franks 12-oz.
X | 3.99 | b1g1f | X | X | 4.99 | 4.99
Scott Pete polish sausage (pork) 20-oz. {'+' tariff for beef}
3.99(+1) | 3.99(+3) | X | X | X | X | X
Heinz ketchup 38-oz.
X | 3.99 | 3.99d | X | X | 4.99 | 3.99
Hershey chocolate bar 6-pack
X | X | X | X | X | 4.99 | 5.99
Hellmann's mayonnaise 30-oz.
3.99d | 3.99d | 3.99d | X | X | X | 5.99{

X = item not mentioned | d = digital | ^ = limit 5 | * = must buy 4, limit 8 | ** = must buy 5, limit 10 | % = 24-pack divided by two | & = in a herd of at least five | ~ = different brand 11-oz. | { = 20-oz. squeeze bottle

The package had fourteen coupons for Subway (valid thru 8 August).
We also have the Vericast coupon booklet. I espied a pair of foodstuffs on page 4, and a Luigi's italian ice coupon on page 9.
Food4Less' price also valid @ Mariano's. Unspecified item limits vary. Butera's prices valid through 9 July.
Also in the herd @ Food4Less is Ensure shakes six-pack 8-oz. bottles $10.29. A fortnight ago, the Vericast booklet had a coupon for $5.00 off a six-pack with which you could stack this. That is not a good deal on the Minute Maid 59-oz. cartons of fruit drinks.
The soda deal @ Tony's has a slight variation for Pepsi products [b2g3f] but equates to $3.99 each.
If you opt in for the 12-pack of Leinenkugel's beer 12-oz. cans 11.99 @ Jewel, the qualifying Johnsonville brats purchase getting the instant rebate is the 19-oz. links in the fresh meat case for 3.49(digital-limit 2). I remember at Tony's, Johnsonville brats were in three distinct locations in the store, but I managed to find the correct 19-oz. package for the deal. For the beer, I recommend the Leinie's Lakeside Cherry beer.
There is a Binny's beverage depot glossy flyer this week. I've annotated the price for the European imported beers @ Angelo Caputo. Binny's will have them, so compare the price, and inform us if they are level or lower.

I did not mention the 16-count Ball Park beef franks @ Butera because it has likely sold out in four hours or less.
Notice how Aldi never mentions its price on soda?.

Angelo Caputo is a cult. Founders has never been a local beer, and now Lagunitas is not anymore (It is now 'local' to Amsterdam, the Netherlands.). Nonetheless, I am O.K. with you purchasing the 4-pack 500-mL. cans of Zatecky Svetly Lezak beer for $3.99; or the $5.00 4-packs 500-mL. cans of Zywiec, Tatra, or Warka beer.

This is what was delivered this week to 60641.

A late highlight from the Lewis Fresh ad: Queso del Sol Wisconsin cheddar for the pre-pandemic price of $1.99/lb. I tried a block of it - a nice mild/medium relatively high moisture cheddar that will work great for traditional cheeseburgers, grilled cheese or just nibbling. Very similar to what I once got in southern Indiana as "rat cheese."

Between breweries and soccer, I've been busy this week. And I need to schedule a medical appointment as well. {Who is both in-network and in-plan?}
But I carved out time to ride the #54 Cicero bus to Food4Less. I bought more 99¢ hot dog buns (digital)(30¢ cheaper than Aldi, the low-priced leader). When I bought them back a while in Melrose Park, I scarfed part of the last twenty packages on the lowest shelf. At this Food4Less, it was not taking any chances. There were stacks of hot dog and hamburger buns inside the front door. I also used two of the coupons I clipped from the Vericast pamphlet for the Ensure shakes [$5.00 off $10.29]. But, to get the shakes for that price, I had to include three other items in a herd. I had only a slim idea of what I could get to get to five. The Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce (for 99¢) was possible.
But there was this glossy sheet also just inside the front door annotating all the items in the herd. I do not think you can get this on-line. If you can, it must involve scores of clicks on its W-WW page. The BBQ sauce dropped out. What it came down to was the Pringles potato crisps or the Mission tortilla chips. I could not find the Mission tortilla chips, and it would have been bulky enough to potentially stick out the top of my grocery bag. Did I scribe I was riding the #54 bus? So, the additional three items were cylinders of Pringles, in two flavors.
{I actually have a two-wheeled hand cart. It is stored downstairs on the first floor here at the abode. But I cannot contemplate hauling it around on a transit vehicle. Even if I ask for the wheelchair ramp to deploy. Then, I would have to get the cart down the stairs to the basement where all the beverages are stocked.}
The herd prices are valid through 16 July. If you didn't look at the image {because you are bizarrely viewing here on a cigarette-pack sized phone screen}, one of the items in the herd is the 38-oz. bottle of Heinz ketchup - just what you need to pack with you in case you find that restaurant which serves another brand. Both Hellmann's mayonnaise 20-oz. and Miracle Whip 30-oz. are in the herd; and there a couple of ice cream choices.
I also scavenged a 24-oz. loaf of Private Selection [Kroger brand] sugar free 100% whole wheat wide pan bread for 95¢. (Another choice for a bologna sandwich.)

As for what is going to go in those hot dog buns: I pulled this pack of Bar S franks out of the back porch freezer. Look at that 'freshness' date. My dad was alive when I bought this. There are foodstuffs here at the abode that date back to when my mom was alive. (What can I do? I can't throw food in the garbage. Is the food depository going to show up here and haul it away?)

Not-quite-P.S.: I am not going to buy any more 12-packs of 12-oz. soda this week. The $3.99 price continues @ Tony's Fresh Market. However, Family Dollar has 12-packs of Keurig Dr. Pepper brands @ $3.33 (digital-limit 12). This can go lower if you shop on Saturday and spend at least $25.00 on the trip.

Pudgy- You must have a whole lot more freezer space than I do. I only have a freezer on top of my fridge, and so I don't have enough room to get 20 frozen dinners and five packages of hot dog buns. No way would I eat any hot dogs that expired in 2015. Even if they are safe to eat, the quality of the hot dogs would be less than I would be willing to put up with. There is only one item on your list from Food4Less that I would buy, and that is the head and shoulders.

I only buy WW hot dog buns, and so I can't get them for $.99, and I don't buy hot dogs. I eat chicken sausage instead, which I bought B1G1F on Tuesday at Jewel. Good luck getting a doctor's appointment. It takes me 10 weeks just to get an appointment with my primary care doctor, and a lot of specialists it takes three or more months to get an appointment.

I apologize for not posting in this thread in the recent past. I would really enjoy if the forum's software would allow the 'Table' function, because then I could {off-line} annotate the prices I particulate paying attention to in their advertisement [E.G: Baby Ray's BBQ sauce] and paste that into the line of the table = if it was $1.99 somewhere and $1.00 elsewhere]
Anyhow, I'm sticking this here now because one of the other W-WW sites I frequent has posted this condemning, devastating article as to why this is occuring.
A moderator could move this to the "What's With the Price" thread if deemed so.

People, I have not forgot about this rubric.
But I would really appreciate if the forum's software could accomodate the "table" command.
Last week, I was especially distraught learning that one grocer, targetting Latinx customers, deigned that charging $2.47 for the 18-oz. jar of Baby Ray's BBQ sauce, and further claiming it as a "sale" price - when it has sold for as little as 99¢ other weeks at other stores.
The store, which should remain unidentified, but is Centro Fresh Marker {If it is going to maintain this was a "sale" price; it doesn't get the grave above the "r", and it is permanently suspended from future consideration.}.

This week, for whatever reason, Jewel-Osco failed to make the Weekly Flyer package. I do enough digging on Food 4 Less, Butera, and Angelo Caputo in Flipp. I am not expanding this to Jewel-Osco. Particularly with the size of the text in its advert.
I hope this amends next week.

Week #120: Bare-bones reporting.

I am honing in on seventy-five breweries for the Illinois Craft Brewers' Guild's "Summer Passport" scheme.
But this week's Flyer package has an advert for Jewel-Osco, so I am going to give you the basic minimum for what could be bought at metropolitan Chicago grocers this week (7-13 August).

First I will eliminate Aldi ("#1 in back-to-school ads in July"). It actually mentions items for back-to-school, including what to put in your kid's lunch bag, which the bullies will likely intimidate away from him | her anyhow. In which case, buy the cheap stuff at Dollar.25 Tree. Maybe the bullies will tire of eating it and start ignoring your kid. Notice the advert mentions 20-oz. wheat bread, 11-oz. preserves, and 40-oz. peanut butter.
Where's the 16-oz. bologna?! That is a foodstuff you should buy at Aldi. But it doesn't always have it. So I guess that is why it is not mentioned.

I did not expect this for another month. Family Dollar (affiliated with Dollar.25 Tree) has been pushing solid deals on items, including 12-oz. soda 12-packs. Keurig Dr. Pepper 12-packs at $4.00 (must buy 3 - limit 12 - but it's not digital - so find a 2nd | 3rd Family Dollar for more selections). It just might have Cherry RC by now. Its sales start on Sunday: the 'Smart Coupon' $5.00 off a $25.00+ purchase on Saturday could reduce it more - but you would have to deal with diminished quantity of its brands.
The 9 Lives 5½-oz. cans of wet cat food for 60¢ (must buy 10 - limit 20) are a good deal; but I don't have any cans of its varieties here at the abode. {I paid 73-78¢ | can for Friskies varieties from Chewy.}
You can sign up for its advert to be e-mailed to you.

Tony's Fresh Market has 24-packs of Keurig. Dr. Pepper brands for $7.99 (must buy 2 - limit 4 - but it's not digital). Contemplate fewer brands are packaged in 24-packs than in 12-packs [e.g.: I doubt there is a 24-pack of A&W Cream Soda.]. Supposedly, this is only valid thru Saturday. I don't think so.
If I had the 'Table' function here, I could swiftly illustrate that the sweet corn is 25¢ (limit 12 - not digital) here, versus 29¢ (digital - limit 10) for Jewel-Osco. Leinenkugel's 12-packs of 12-oz. containers is $10.99 versus 11.99 @ Jewel-Osco. Leinie's Oktoberfest beer could be showing up this week. You could definitely buy that.
As long as I'm mentioning beer; for all the mentions I give Miller High Life in these; this is the first time I espy Busch beer 12-packs for $4.99 (must buy 2). I rate Busch as equal to High Life in that it is a "popular" beer. "Popular" grade beers have less barley malt and more adjuncts. My rejection of any and all brands with "light" or "lite" in their names holds. The Little Debbie cakes for $2.50 is good. I recommend the Zebra cakes.

At Food4Less, $2.99 for 32-oz. Heinz ketchup (digital - limit 5) ~ just what you need the next time you eat @ McDonald's. (One dollar less than Tony's.) I see nothing else at Food4Less.

At Jewel-Osco, someone will have to investigate and report the price of the B1G1F Stouffer's | Lean Cuisine frozen entrees. The true sale price is $2.00, but the last time I saw an advert for them, it calculated to 2.50. I am down to seventeen boxes.
The 'Back to School lunchbox favorites' completely omits the J J's pies. Which, when it gets them in stock, have more varieties and are less expensive than the same thing at Aldi - and they're likely baked in the same bakery.

We have the Vericast coupon insert this week. No good coupons therein.

I see nothing at Butera or Angelo Caputo.

This is what was delivered this week to 60641.

I have not abandoned the Weekly Flyer survey. I mostly have not found anything worth mentioning on sale at the grocers I study.
I'm posting this now because I had the weekly flyer from Family Dollar e-mailed to me. Its sale starts today and runs through next Saturday, the 24th.
Primarily, $7.50 a 12-pack for 12-oz. Coca-Cola products is not a good deal. It is not even close. However, the ad also heralds an 18-pack of 12-oz. select Keurig Dr. Pepper brands for $6.00. At the true sale price for 12 12-oz. cans of $3.99; that breaks down to .3325 per can. 18 cans for $6.00 breaks down to .3333 per can. I have not glimpsed a lot of shelf space for 18-packs at grocers. It is probably primarily shipped to warehouse membership stores. The ad copy specifically mentions RC Cola, 7-Up, and Big Red. 12-packs of Big Red are only sporadically stocked by grocers. I can't remember ever seeing it at Tony's Fresh Market. So I can recommend you checking this out at Family Dollar. If you do, please inform us what brands it stocked.

If you have a cat, I can also recommend buying the Ashland Farms wet cat food 5.5-oz. can for .70. (I paid .73 -.78 for cans of Friskies from Chewy .com.)

pudgym29 wrote: I have not abandoned the Weekly Flyer survey. I mostly have not found anything worth mentioning on sale at the grocers I study.
I'm posting this now because I had the weekly flyer from Family Dollar e-mailed to me. Its sale starts today and runs through next Saturday, the 24th.
Primarily, $7.50 a 12-pack for 12-oz. Coca-Cola products is not a good deal. It is not even close. However, the ad also heralds an 18-pack of 12-oz. select Keurig Dr. Pepper brands for $6.00. At the true sale price for 12 12-oz. cans of $3.99; that breaks down to .3325 per can. 18 cans for $6.00 breaks down to .3333 per can. I have not glimpsed a lot of shelf space for 18-packs at grocers. It is probably primarily shipped to warehouse membership stores. The ad copy specifically mentions RC Cola, 7-Up, and Big Red. 12-packs of Big Red are only sporadically stocked by grocers. I can't remember ever seeing it at Tony's Fresh Market. So I can recommend you checking this out at Family Dollar. If you do, please inform us what brands it stocked.

If you have a cat, I can also recommend buying the Ashland Farms wet cat food 5.5-oz. can for .70. (I paid .73 -.78 for cans of Friskies from Chewy .com.)

Hi Pudgy,
I’ve never seen Big Red anywhere in Chicagoland, but in Dallas, TX, it was a must have with my Saturday bowl of menudo.

Evil Ronnie wrote:[my own post snipped to save bandwidth]
Hi Pudgy,
I’ve never seen Big Red anywhere in Chicagoland, but in Dallas, TX, it was a must have with my Saturday bowl of menudo.

I have seen it, and sporadically bought it when seen @ Jewel-Osco (back when the true sale price was 2.99). It was OK. I could buy it again if I needed one more 12-pack to get the multiplied number [e.g.: Must buy #].

Looks like Big Red is available at da Jewels - in Waukegan at least. I bought a twelver back in the day, probably at the 4 for $8.88 sale when we bought a mountain of oddball pops: Vernors, Squirt, 50/50, Fanta Pineapple, Big Red...

One lonely can of Big Red is still in the fridge many years later. To its credit, it hasn't rusted through like Mountain Dew tends to do.

tjr wrote:Looks like Big Red is available at da Jewels - in Waukegan at least. I bought a twelver back in the day, probably at the 4 for $8.88 sale when we bought a mountain of oddball pops: Vernors, Squirt, 50/50, Fanta Pineapple, Big Red...

One lonely can of Big Red is still in the fridge many years later. To its credit, it hasn't rusted through like Mountain Dew tends to do.

They’re $9.99 each. $7.99 each when you buy three via J4U exp 8/20.

A couple Jerry's highlights not in their ad:
Still have sweet cherries for $1.49. They're not bad.
5lb bags of mini-diced mozzarella for pizza for $6.99

Butera continues the 99¢ turkey breast halves plus 4 for $10 party size Lays, best price for 2024 so far.

I am not going to spend a lot of time on this, but there are good deals at metropolitan Chicago grocers this week.
Part of that is not actually at a grocery. Family Dollar, utilizing its association with Dollar25, has marshalled solid deals on 12-oz. cans of soda. Keurig Dr. Pepper brands {including Cherry RC?} are $3.33 - digital (must buy 3, limit 12). Pepsi brands are $3.75 - digital (must buy 4, limit 12), supposedly only on Friday-Sunday. If you couple this to its Saturday-only digital $5.00 off a $25.00+ purchase, the price can drop further.
Note the disparity of 'sale' prices of Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce 18-oz. The true deal is at Butera - $2.97 for 3 (must buy 3 - multiples of 3 with no limit mentioned). That some of these Latinx grocers think they can get $2.00 for one; it is a sad commentary on what they think of their customers. {"Pay no attention to those gringo grocers! We speak Spanish. Solidarity!"}
The Scott Pete polish sausage 20-oz. is $3.99; beef is 4.99. There is no limit at Food 4 Less | Mariano's. Other deals with them are soda 12-packs for $3.99 (must buy 5 - limit 10); Bugles, Chex Mix, Gardetto's 8.6-oz. for $1.49 (limit 5), Kroger brand potato salad 3-lbs. $4.99; Hellmann's mayonnaise 30-oz. $3.99 (digital - limit 5) (Jewel has a digital coupon for the same price, but won't state what is its limit. Butera has a digital coupon for the same price, but limits you to one.) Power-Ade 28-oz. bottles 77¢. I see grocers offering sales on hot dogs | hamburgers, but no adjacent sale on hot dog | hamburger buns. This is when I recall the missed "day old" bakery outlets. I could tell you where they were. The buns may have been going out-of-code in the next week, but were all you really needed for backyard cookouts.
I know I razz Aldi here quite frequently. This is a rare week when an item it lists in its flyer is actually a good deal. Its store brand Clancy's 9-oz. potato chips $1.69 is comparable to 3 | $5.00 sales at other grocers. If you do not have any buns in your freezer, you're going to wind up buying them at Aldi's.
This leaves Jewel-Osco. It has the 12-packs of 12-oz. soda for $4.00 (B2G3F - limit 10). There are items which are difficult to compare pricing because some of them are classified at $1.99 - digital, and other products in the same category are B1G1F: E.G.: Jays potato chips 10-oz. are B1G1F, but its parent company Utz's 8-oz. are $1.99. The Entenmann's donuts are probably $6.89, so if you can get through two boxes of those quickly, buy it. The Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce 18-oz. is also in here - but I've directed you where to buy it.
Jewel's mascot has episodes listed. Boz Scaggs' appearance has not yet been confirmed.

I might wind up riding transit to some of these stores this week. Not for soda, but for the snacks and chips, although I still have multiple bags of Bugles & Chex Mix. Perhaps they'll appear at the LTHF picnic.

tjr wrote:A couple Jerry's highlights not in their ad:
Still have sweet cherries for $1.49. They're not bad.
5lb bags of mini-diced mozzarella for pizza for $6.99

Butera continues the 99¢ turkey breast halves plus 4 for $10 party size Lays, best price for 2024 so far.

Hi tjr,
At the Palatine store last time this sale appeared, the Turkey was totally covered in ice crystals. Scary.
Were these in good shape?
Evil

Evil: I got some that seemed fine. The first one I cooked was excellent. Second was a little dry but I think that was due to cooking error more than freezer burn. I have 2 or 3 more in the freezer. They were packed sort of strangely - not cryovac but just very heavy poly bags with ties. Maybe those are what wholesale chilled turkey breasts come in? Butera is kinda known for freezing near out of date meats so perhaps that's what happened.

My last trip to the Grayslake store the turkey was all gone.

Pudgy: Beware the Aldi Clancy's potato chips. They used to be ok but now seem to be more crumbs than chips. Last time I brought some home, my kid asked me if somebody had stomped on the bag. The harder corn chips and tortilla chips fare a little better.

My highlights for this week: $4 twelvers of name brand soda at Kroger & Jewel, 99¢ 1.5lb little potatoes at Marianos, assorted potato chip deals at Jewel and Butera altho none as good as last week's, 19¢ corn at Butera & Jewel - maybe not worth the risk when Woodmans corn is excellent if a little more expensive, $2.99 Kemps ice cream at Butera. Montrose, Valli and ShopNSave are uninspiring this week. SNS does have intriguing non-graded tomahawk steaks for $9.99/lb.

I attempted to shop @ Jewel-Osco on-line, but it rejected my logon in Firefox. So I'm using Brave instead (including here).
What was initially planned for transit has modified to me hauling out the 1987 Chevrolet Sprint to go to Culver's (I have a coupon for $1.00 off a meal. Which would be a good move before grocery shopping.), Binny's (4901 W. Irving Park), & Jewel-Osco (4660 W. Irving Park).
The Binny's order has been placed. I'm getting 11 beers from it. It was out of one brew. Unquestionably, some of these beers will appear at the LTHF Picnic.
The items at Jewel I seek are: I don't know if I really need them, but I'm going to get ten 12-packs of 12-oz. soda cans for $4.00 because I do not foresee the price ever going lower - particularly if Albertsons & Kroger manage to stall the regulators until after January 2025 (presuming the U.S. populace change the Federal Government office holders), and the recaptured regulators approve the merger.
Big Red is one of the available 12-packs. I will attempt to buy the Saturday Sampler Body Armour sports drink. But I am unsure if I managed to put that coupon on my list.
I am also getting two 6-packs of Hershey chocolate bars ($5.00 - digital - limit 2). When I bought this @ Aldi, it got $6.28 from me. "The low-priced leader" - yeah sure. Just like some office holders - keep telling the lie until enough people believe it is true."
I will search for the JJ's pies, which are extremely difficult to research on-line. Is there a space between the 'J's, or should it be periods? But if Jewel has them, they will also be cheaper than the equivalent @ Aldi. I might even get to buy the cherry ones.
The Entenmann's chocolate donuts are also a potential buy.
Could I tack-on the new Aldi on N. Milwaukee Ave. within sight of the Jewel-Osco on Irving Park? It is tempting. What would I buy there? The 16-oz. bologna is always a possibility. More boxes of baking soda (for Mirko's litter box)? What Octoberfest beers might it have; including a few obscure German breweries; or maybe including whatever it brews at Octopi Brwg. in Wisconsin {and that this could change in the future because it is now owned by Asahi}? More green tea, yes. I would buy a larger box of green tea if it had that.

Of course, this is all dependent on the 1987 Sprint starting when I crank it. It has been a number of weeks since it was driven. But the weather should not be complicating it.
Await photographs when I complete this, including a never-before-seen shot of the back porch external freezer for those who were pondering how much capacity I have.

I've had exactly one bottle of pop in the last three months, and that was a bottle of Faygo Rock and Rye that one of my sisters purchased in Michigan back in June, and did not drink it, and gave it to me. I love Rock and Rye, but you cannot find it in the Chicago area. I drink sparkling water now. I just picked up three cartons of La Croix at Jewel last night. I don't drink beer either. I don't care for it. Jewel has Gilberts chicken sausage B1G1F, and I picked up two cartons of that. They also have strawberries for $1.99. I got two cartons, and then I had a $1 off any produce coupon on J4U. Jewel does not have any good deals on frozen dinners this week. I will try to use up some of the seafood I have in my freezer instead.

All right. Here is the damage done today.
I did not go to Aldi. At the Jewel-Osco, the Saturday Sampler Body Armour energy drink was not recognized. The purchase of the Hershey chocolate bars @ the forU price was. So twenty minutes were expended waiting at the customer service counter. If I was deeply cynical {I am not.}, I would opine Jewel-Osco | Albertson does this on purpose; deducing that people do not check their receipt upon receiving it, or do not observe they were charged for an item which was advertised as "free", or will not wait how-many-minutes to have this corrected. In each of these cases, the corporation makes more funds to which it was not entitled. The twenty minutes expended here dissuaded me from going to Aldi. When I arrived here back at the abode, it was getting quite dark.
I did not finish scanning, compiling, and stocking the soda | beer cellar until after 21:00 hours.
Here is the breakout of the day's expenditures

1. Culver's $12.84
2. Binny's $124.04
3. Jewel-Osco $70.37*

* = includes the deduction of the Saturday Sampler


If you want to know the prices realized for each beer, respond here. I had a 12th beer ordered, but this Binny's was out of it, despite what its W-WW store indicated. I was contacted via telephone. I hung up once because it sounded like a spam call (98.6% of calls here are spam | scam calls.). If I think the call might not be a spam call, I cry "meowww": Let them think a cat has knocked the phone out of its cradle.

I am going to the Chicago Transit Authority's 40th anniversary of "L" service to O'Hare Airport on Sunday morning. I rode the West-Northwest Line to O'Hare on the first day of service: 3 September 1984. I had the 1980s equivalent of the Authority's "Sunday SuperTransfer". Coming back from O'Hare, I rode to Addison St. and transferred to the #152 bus. The Chicago STING had a late afternoon game v. Vancouver WHITECAPS @ Wrigley Field {Recall there were no lights at Wrigley Field in 1984.}. On the soccer grapevine was a report that a recent high school graduate had just become a U. S. Citizen, and was promoted to the STING's active roster. We needed to win this game (and the last two games also) if we were to make the N.A.S.L. playoffs. The kid was a goal scorer in high school, and if the STING fell behind, he could have been substituted in.
We did not fall behind. We scored the first three goals; allowed a penalty kick consolation goal to Vancouver, and won 3-1 - getting the key maximum nine points in the standings.
What was that? What was the kid's name? Somebody you've probably never heard of, Frank Klopas.
One more thing: The next soccer game @ Wrigley Field was Saturday, 22 July 2012: AS Roma [IT] v. Zaglebie Lubin [PL] [4-0]. I attended that game as well.

NFriday wrote:I've had exactly one bottle of pop in the last three months, and that was a bottle of Faygo Rock and Rye that one of my sisters purchased in Michigan back in June, and did not drink it, and gave it to me. I love Rock and Rye, but you cannot find it in the Chicago area. I drink sparkling water now. I just picked up three cartons of La Croix at Jewel last night. I don't drink beer either. I don't care for it. Jewel has Gilberts chicken sausage B1G1F, and I picked up two cartons of that. They also have strawberries for $1.99. I got two cartons, and then I had a $1 off any produce coupon on J4U. Jewel does not have any good deals on frozen dinners this week. I will try to use up some of the seafood I have in my freezer instead.

Faygo including Rock and Rye is available at Meijer.

Anything good this week?
There are Burger King coupons on the sheath's page 2. The less scrawled about page 3's attempt to extract $1,395.00 from you for physical artifacts you will not actually receive, the better.

Food 4 Less | Mariano's $9.99 a 24-pack for 12-oz. soda is not $7.99, which is what two 12-packs should cost when you buy them.

Do you want to tell me that the Kroger potato chips (9½-oz. $1.99 this week) are not produced in the same bakery as Aldi's Clancy's brand (9-oz. $1.69 last week - but this week it is back to 2.19)? And are subjected to as much of the disintegration of them? Jay's 10-oz. for $2.79 is an even worse deal. (You would think the local brand should be less expensive.) Don't get these here. Having to spend $35.00+ to qualify for "free" 1-lb(?). Kroger brand cheese is incredible.
It seems the Entenmann's B1G1F deal has landed here this week. I didn't buy this last week @ Jewel-Osco because it had the JJ's Pies for 79¢. I bought 16 of those instead: 8 cherry, 4 apple, 2 peach, 2 boston cream.

Butera has Banquet frozen entrees for 99¢.

Oh dear - Angelo Caputo actually running a banner ad in its weekly advert for Boar's Head deli meats?! This is the instance where you should pray it is out of stock with no rainchecks.
This reminds me of the episode when Iams pet food had a slogan, "for the life of your pet", and serving it took that.

Tony's has the Entenmann's donuts special. But you could also amend that to the 12-pack of Clyde's glazed donuts for $3.99 (digital). The Hostess snack cakes for 99¢ sold out 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1.. just now. The gridiron helmet shown at the bottom of page 1 looks suspiciously like that of the Cleveland Browns team; and none of the 8 plays in the formation are good. A shopping audible should be called.

Jewel-Osco: Not much. Maybe the Bugles | Chex Mixx | Gardetto's 8.6-oz. bags for $1.99 (digital - must buy 2). {Tony's wants 2.49 - must buy 5}
The potato chip 'deal' is Lays 8-oz. for $1.99 digital @ Jewel.
Maybe I messed up last week. Where do you find its "Saturday sampler" in its W-WW page? Typing in "sampler" gets nothing found. Do you have to deduce in which department it would be?
Jewel's mascot has scheduled public appearances. Boz Scaggs {"♪What do you think about gentlemen wearing fur?♪"} is still unconfirmed.

Nothing good in Aldi's advert. But if you need some staples, this is where they would be cheap.

If you hung onto last week's flyers, compare them. I see some of the same 'sale' items as last week, except this week they cost more. [e.g.: Hellmann's mayonnaise, 12-packs of soda]

Since I'm having flashback memories, I reintroduce "Mad Libs" to this topic.
Insert your favorite socio-economic adjective to, "September is _________________ 'give us your money' month!" Just about any qualifying word will make sense.

(P. S. : Faygo soda is almost always in stock @ Dollar25.)

A few bargains on my list: $2.99 gallons of Ziegler apple cider at Jewel, limit 2. It's apple season so bottled apple juice will be on sale pretty much everywhere to clear out last year's stock.
99¢ pork butts at Tony's, best price in a while.
Avocados, 69¢ at Butera or 5 for $1.99 at Tony's (coupon there.)
$1.99/lb thick bacon at Butera.
Fiora bath tissue & paper towel at Woodmans, paper coupon required but there were plenty available.

Jewel has strawberries for $1.99 limit two, and I have a $1 off of produce on my J4U. Jewel also has Kemp's ice cream and frozen yogurt B1G1F again.

I was in Whole Foods on Wednesday, and they have their coffee 30% off right now.

I see only a few items worth pursuing in this week's Flyer.
First of all; it appears Aldi is tired of me razzing it; so it decided to not include its advert this week. Maybe I'll go browse it on F l i p p or maybe I won't.

I'm noticing potato chips this week. Family Dollar is offering "Eatz" 8-oz. chips for $2.00 (must buy 2). Jewel-Osco wants $1.99 for "Zapps" 8-oz. (digital - limit undisclosed) or $2.50 for "Lays" (digital - limit 2, must buy 2). Tony's offers $2.50 for "Jays" 10-oz. (must buy 2). Do not buy the Zapps chips @ Tony's.

Nobody has a true deal on 12-oz. soda this week. Not even Family Dollar.

What you could buy @ Family Dollar, besides the potato chips, is a quad chair from Outdoors by Design for $10.00 - which would be a solid move if you're contemplating attending the LTH picnic. (I already have a folding quad chair.) I have no idea how much it charges for the Scott bathroom tissue products, but there's a digital coupon for $1.00 off.
I do kindly request you do not buy the red plastic cups. From prior instances, not only are they "PS 6" (which does not recycle in NE Illinois), but you cannot actually see the color of whatever beverage is therein. I have some bags of "PETE 1" 14-oz. clear plastic cups which were bought way back when there was the Edward R. Don factory outlet store on N. Elston Ave. I could bring a sleeve of those.

At Tony's, you could investigate the Nathan's 14-oz. beef franks for $3.99; the 12-pack of 12-oz. cans of Miller High Life for $5.99; and the Nissin ramen 3.32-oz. upgraded bowls for 99¢ (must buy at least 5). These are frequently espied at Dollar25 for $1.25. Maruchan ramen cups & bowls goes on sale more frequently, but Nissin is the brand that keeps experimenting with different flavors. Most of them however, are concentric to Japan. The 99¢ herd deal @ Tony's also includes Best Choice [store brand] chili 15-oz.; & Sugardale Hot Dogs 12-oz. Do not buy the 3-pack of Affy Tapple caramel apples @ Tony's. Get it @ Jewel $2.99 (digital).

Food 4 Less has only the 8-pack of Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwiches for $9.99 (digital - limit 5); Hellmann's mayonnaise 30-oz. for $3.99 (digital - in the herd deal of 3); Bar S franks 12-oz. for $1.25. The hyped 1.79 for 8-packs of Kroger hot dog | hamburger buns is its regular price. If you're running low on this, do not pay this amount @ Food 4 Less. Anybody who utters this is OK, punch them out. {They introduced the boxing gloves.} I seem to recall getting the White Castle hamburgers 16-pack for 9.99; so don't pay 10.99.

I have only a negative rejoinder for Jewel-Osco otherwise. I love local as well. I do not accept that supporting 'local', in this case, the Vienna Beef 12-oz. franks, means spending more than 3.99 for it. (And Jewel is not local anymore anyhow.) The Green River soda? That is a one-liter glass bottle, so it can't even appear at the LTH Picnic. Crush Lime was just as good as it, and it cost less, but it is not being packaged anymore.

We have the Vericast coupon supplement this week. There is a short-term $5.00-off coupon for Ensure nutritional shakes therein. Nobody might have this on sale this week; but the last time this coupon appeared, it went on sale @ Food 4 Less the following week- in the herd deal {must buy at least 3}.

That was what was delivered to 60641.